Thank you all for voting favorably on a less than technically sound picture. I appreciate all the comments. There should have been a light behind the subject. It was late and my model had time for only one shot.
I thought of doing this picture the real way using a strobe, but quickly found out that the miniscule mass of a kernel would not allow for it to be propelled more than a couple of inches upwards, no matter how hard you catapulted it with the spoon, so, I had to hang the kernels using black thread.
The set up was in darkness except for a continuous light snoot illuminating the model's hand and arm. During the first second and a half of exposure the model lowered his arm and hand over the spoon slowly, at the end of the second second, a monolight was triggered by the camera set to rear curtain flash, that was it. I did play with curves and selective color in photoshop to try and even the color temperature difference between the arm/hand and the face (tungsten vs. flash), it came out close but not perfect.
My gratitude to Manuel for modeling and my daughter Marisa for helping me hang the kernels.
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LOL it already has the validated seal of approval on it. :) I like the shot. I would love to see some description on how it was done. I have an idea, but would love to see it. Now on the shot. The lighting hurts the shot a little for me. The back of our popcorn pal especially the hair gets lost into the background which for some would probably be perfect but IMO it detracts. Still a FUN FUN shot and I can't wait to hear how you did it.
Eating it the hard way
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